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what's going on everyone we are in the office for this video because I want to benchmark very unorthodox graphics card I'm calling it over the rocks because it's not one you would typically go out and buy for the purpose of gaming this is more or less in graphic store you would use if your see if you didn't have integrated graphics so maybe a Rison processor you would have turned something into a HTPC you would need a graphics card like this one now which one am I talking about I'm gonna go into the film room for a second I actually purchased this a while back and I've been meaning to test it because I really want to know just how powerful an r5 220 graphics card really is to be quiet dark bass 700 brings luxury and silence to the mainstream luxury thanks to subtle RGB integration full case modularity and even USB type-c support in silence thanks to 3 included silent wings 3 fans and sound dampening foam all around click the link in this video's description for more details so there are a few things that make this small little card unique first off its size of course it's a 1 slot card because it is severely underpowered when you compare it to something like I don't know an R 9 390 or the more recent graphics cards like the rx 480 the 580 and something like a gtx 1070 on nvidia side so not only that it's also passively cool this is just a heatsink on top here with no fan integrated it's that low-power it doesn't need dedicated PCIe power it doesn't need anything except what you see here it's just plug and play apart from the software you to install so what we're gonna do is pop this into that machine right there so this is a rendition of walter white if you will in there right now as a gtx 1080 TI one of the best graphics cards you can currently buy on the market especially for the money well maybe not today's money in the days market but you know back when prices were actually reasonable i allready benchmarked eight games with this card and now we're gonna put this little thing in there and see just what it can do a quick lan to the specs here i had to refresh my memory because it was a wild back when i purchased this thing a tea stream processors built-in okay it's not as bad as the seven in this video maybe over on this side of the screen from way back in the day but this is not like i said a very powerful card 64-bit memory interface a core clock of 650 megahertz that's compared to the 1080 TI which is the ultimate powerhouse if you will 3584 cuda cores they're not a one-to-one spring processes and cuda cores are are different all around that you can kind of get an idea for how much more advanced this card is also a boost clock of 1582 thats 1.5 1.6 gigahertz so huge difference this is not going to be a fair comparison that's not the point of this video i just want to show you how viable this actually is in today's market if you're thinking about buying something that's super cheap because everything else out there is extremely expensive right now yes even starting to work into the 1050 TI territory the RX 560 this thing might be something you're considering we're gonna find out this video if it actually is something you should consider for gaming so let's pop it in let's install the software and see what kind of frames we get in today's modern games that's the first things first we do want to uninstall the previous video driver it just eliminates the hassle it might show up in the future especially we put the AMD card in there although in today's day and age it's pretty simple to do so we're gonna uninstall this so we're gonna power off the PC pull out the 1080i and then pop this bad boy and we're actually getting a few PCIe cables power cables just kind of laying around the case it'll look really weird also this part is so small I don't even think people are going to think this is a graphics card they'll probably suspect it's something like a sound card that's what yeah that's what today's sound cards look like it's about the same form factor here now it's funny I think it takes longer for the Nvidia drivers to uninstall than it does for them to install oh okay this is not where the screw driver belongs doesn't belong in the kitchen okay we're just gonna leave those there this is a 1080i from gigabyte for those wondering find it link in the video description although I don't recommend you buy something like this now because it's gonna cost upwards of $1,000 which is a bit ridiculous that's a pretty sweet though it doesn't come with a backplate probably only aesthetic thing I would add to the card especially for the money but it's alright here we go wow this is this is so small I'm not even gonna I'm not even gonna secure this thing to the to the chassis I'm just gonna leave it hanging like that it's just so light and in tiny alright and we're gonna power it back on I'll leave the glass off so what I have in here right now actually I forgot to say this earlier this is arisin 7 1700 X so rice and CPUs don't have integrated GPUs which means that you will need something like this if you want to run an HTPC or even game I think this is probably the bare-bones graphics card for gaming but you will need this if you want to connect your PC to a monitor and actually see something on screen so just because the motherboard has you know like HDMI out or DisplayPort out those connections are out before the becoming AMD APU snot for Rison CPUs alright our screen is ultra low resolution that's not a problem let's go to AMD auto detect ok so it looks like the max resolution we can run with this card via HDMI is 1080p so I've tried changing it here the highest we can go is 1080p 1920 by 1080 and then also if I go into the catalyst control center which you know this is old-school and we're back to the catalyst Center this will also only allow us to go up to 1080p so we're basically yeah we're there's nothing really we can do here except stay antenna which is fine but we're going to benchmark in this resolution here if we're gonna try 1080p if we have to lower the in-game resolution then we will but we'll keep the standard resolution to 1080 because I think that's what most people will desire this card also the the benchmarks that you're gonna see we're gonna have a full-on 1080 TI which is basically running with maxed out in game settings under most circumstances against an r5 220 and what I want to do is see what we need to set the in game settings to in the given resolution to achieve roughly 60 FPS on average we also have one percent end point one percent lowest two to look at so we're going to start first with GTA 5 I love using GTA 5 because it's an all-around decent benchmark and it's pretty well optimized as well across all platforms so yeah let's cross our fingers here okay so just on the on the loading screen here it's pretty trashy just like watching the cursor move left and right here I think we're on like a 15 Hertz refresh rate which yeah that that's pretty self-explanatory resolution set by default to 800 by 600 I think we're gonna try I don't even know if we should try 1080p in this game I don't even think it's worth it let's drop to 720p we are going to keep things on let's just do the default here it's just on normal which is pretty bare-bones and see where we serve where we end up here this is like a starting point for the resin 7 1700 X in there I think we're gonna average around 20 to 30 FPS that's what I'm thinking in 720p upscaled to 1440p on the monitor not that it matters much so yeah I think I think it's gonna be okay considering the resolution but at the same time like the only paying roughly 40 or 50 bucks for this graphics card out of the box so yeah okay this is pretty painful what is this 13 14 15 FPS I totally forgot that like the frame rate for GT fives at the bottom as well oh but this this isn't looking too good I do have this game being benchmarked off of a hard drive at 7200 rpm one terabyte WD blue the same was benchmark for the 1080 Ti so that's pretty even across the board this this is this is noticeably taking longer though I can tell like I don't know why the graphics card would limit things here unless it's just straight bottleneck to you know just before it's crapping itself and not a below the first frame this transition is much longer than than it was with the attend atti yeah what's going on here I wonder if the game just froze I mean I'll take that as a sign okay now we just have a black screen GTA 5 has stopped work so the whole game just crashed because I'm just gonna assume because the graphics card couldn't handle it we got plays TV going crazy over here Wow plays TV really all right we'll just cancel that and I think we'll just average that framerate out to around 14 let's just say 14 fps and that's at a resolution that's that's literally half of 1440p across and it's technically one fourth of the total pixel count of 1440p so the next game will test here let's go let's go with something a lot lighter on the on the graphics card let's do counter-strike so yeah let's go and see if we can hit 60fps and 720p with this one because I know that a lot of professional csgo gamers I think the camera girl can can attest to this one they don't care much about the in-game you know details and stuff like that in fact I would say that a lot of people don't care about the resolution either it's all about the framerate you want to have that quick you know reaction time and if we can hit 60fps with a $50 graphics card you know it's not too bad offline with bots you go to nuke map because nuke is a pretty large map okay so we're still getting the same trash frame right here it's really strange this is like almost the same 16 to 17 fps it looks like on average this is totally unplayable I think any pro or non pro could agree this you can I shoot this guy yeah this is like like my clicks my shots being fired are delayed on this so it's I don't even know what's going on but it's totally not gonna work let's see if we can drop the in-game settings even more and work out something see we're in 1080p now so let's drop to 720p and then we're gonna drop all of using game settings to very low cheese's I'm getting absolutely wrecked by bots your smile behind the camera I really wish people get that such a smug smile alright this is a bit more playable we're just easing above 30 FPS still not recommended again and remember our in-game settings are basically trash so this just this just isn't this isn't gonna work even with csgo which I'm surprised by this this tends to be you know a CPU weighted game but as of now I'm seeing the are 5 to 20 just yeah it's just it's just not keeping up at all we're at 40 45 fps up to 50 here and I'm even know where I'm going what am I even doing in here oh there's a guy how many shot does he gonna take to the chest before he drops ok so we're gonna call csgo not playable either plays TV I'm gonna have to turn this off it's been so long since I've used this yes csgo is a no-go let's do one more game I'm just I'm just curious we're gonna hop into cities skylines no I I'm gonna test this one on camera alive because I think that this game has a chance see us csgo city skylines is a pretty intensive game especially when you start zooming in uses a lot of CPU resources so I think that this one will probably hover around fifteen or twenty FPS which for City skylines honestly isn't that bad with the full-on 1080 TI 1700 X and 16 gigs of system ram I'm averaging around 60 FPS so 20 from 60 isn't as bad I cut as you know 140 to 15 so that's what I want to see in this game I want to see something like that if I don't then I'm just gonna completely write off this card as as ever being a possibility for gamers to utilize wow cities is not responding this sucks alright so we're gonna give it another shot here I'm just gonna reload it one more time this is just an all-around crap storm okay here we go did that maybe that's tripping it we are sporting what is this right now a solid 4 FPS totally not playable as is and I bet if we zoom in it'll drop to like zero let's try yeah let's just zoom in here three two one Oh Vietnam sitting it a solid three okay so everything was set to high so like I said that's probably why it refused to run shadowdistance very short anisotropic filtering off anti-aliasing already disabled and everything else is looking good we're looking at 9 FPS this is just this is never this is never gonna work those buildings look so Pixley right now so you can actually you know zoom in i think the frame rates much more doable than it was let's try to build some stuff wow I'm like bankrupt right now I can't even build anything I mean you could technically play this game with these settings at this framerate it's not like me on the end of the world especially for game like this or it's not it's not very fast-paced you know but it's still just a stark difference from from a decent graphics card I mean even with a 10 60 in here you're looking at maybe a 10% Delta between the 10 60 and a 1080 TI just because this game does utilize a CPU so much more so than it does the graphics card but with the R 5 to 20 in here now it's just not it's it's not keeping up at all we do now have the graphics card as the bottleneck especially for this game and it's just cool to see how things completely turn like the tides turn totally when you switch from something like this just something that's like the size of Mount oast so with that I think I think we're gonna go ahead and show the other benchmarks if they're able to be benchmarked you know the other games and then we'll uh we'll wrap this up I think you guys know you know where this one's going though and I think for 50 bucks you should look elsewhere or save a little more money if you can and get something that's no use maybe like an R 7 370 or older than that whether they have HD 6950 s things that are you know on that three or four generations older than this because if you get something new that's really underpowered you're still gonna be worse off and if you got something that was four or five years old but that was a decent at the time well there you have it I was really hoping this thing would pull through at least you know give us around 30 to 40 FPS in one of the games we tested I'm showing you the remaining graphs now I just not even worth discussing I was gonna go through each one and talk about the differences and and the in game settings I had to use to obtain the framerate but this thing wasn't even pushing 30 frames in something like csgo and the ultra lowest resolution that I would be safely you know considering in a video like this anyway and then also with the lowest in game settings I was just really disappointed with how this thing perform now that's not to say that the RFI of 220 should never be considered I just don't think it should be considered for gaming period unless you want to go back to something as old as like the original Sims which you know come on is that real gaming it's arguable I would say that's more or less retro at this point which sounds really weird cuz I grew up playing that game but you're not gonna play anything relatively modern on this in fact the only thing I'd recommend this for is for someone who wants to do just you know like office work maybe have an r3 1200 you know you spent maybe 100 200 bucks on your CPU and you don't want to go out and get a graphics card especially in today's market you just want to do some office work maybe browse the web this will let you do that I'll be it not in a high resolution but at least it will give you that option with the arisin platform on intel side just use integrated graphics you don't need something like this I will say though considering how affordable Rison actually is in today's market this is not something I would be you know a to say you should go after if you want something like an HTTP see with the Rison CPU or if you want to do what I mentioned just a second ago you know browse the web use you know Microsoft Word and Excel and PowerPoint this should handle that just fine just don't go out and buy something higher than like a 1080p monitor because you're not going to get those resolutions but this unless you go DVI and even that's gonna be a little finicky with the software because it's also old that said it's gonna be pretty cheap it's gonna be pretty quiet I mean it's gonna be virtually silent I'll think there was much coil on at all from this card and there is no fan it's all passively cooled it's super thin and you can you know just take it out and put something else in there whenever the prices for graphics cards actually go back down so it's not a bad interim graphics card if you really want to call it that but it's not something you should be considering for gaming period not that that's much of a surprise I mean come on ad stream processors now for those desperate to get into PC gaming right now whether it be for competitive gaming or you know in-house gaming with friends I would say that you could do one of two things first off wait be patient I think these prices are gonna go down eventually I'll look all the miners who are buying these cards are gonna end up selling them eventually and I expect that the mining market will crash to some extent soon and people will end up cashing out that's when you see a flood of used graphics cards on the market especially on sites like eBay and Craigslist so stay tuned for that and they'll realize I'm not gonna get their asking prices for them the lower prices it'll take a little bit of time but you got to be patient for it and you'll save a lot of money in the process or you could buy ultra old not ultra old you know not something like this cheap either but I would say back to maybe two or three generations ago so maybe gtx760 Riis and I'm a MD side back to maybe Radeon 6900 or 7900 territory you might be able to find some decent deals there although AMD graphics cards because they're better performers generally when it comes to mining are gonna be a bit more expensive so I would lean more towards the Green Team for use graphics cards in the current market with that if you have anything else to add I'd encourage you to comment in the comment section below I like to read comments when I post the video within the first hour or so just to get a feel for how you guys are receiving the video I also take a look at the thumbs-up and thumbs-down ratio so give this one a thumbs up if you thought it was cool thumbs down for the opposite let me know why in the comments below be sure to click the red subscribe button haven't already and the Bell notification icon seen get notified when videos like these goes live this is science studio thanks for benchmarking with us you